Chelsea College – Amanda Jane Textiles

Textiles collaboration samples

Knitted cuff in five shades of blue and also white, an experimental piece by by Amanda Jane Ogden

This is a follow-up to last week’s post (see it here) about the Chelsea College/WI collaboration. Today I’m sharing some of the outcomes from the project. WI participants in the project were fortunate enough to participate in the same lectures and workshops as the students. During the ‘knitting’ lecture, we were encouraged to do someContinueContinue reading “Textiles collaboration samples”

Textiles, Plastics and the Ocean

Plastics in the ocean are a huge environmental problem. I have been learning more about this as part of a textiles project I am working on at the moment. The W.I. (Women’s Institute) in the UK has long been a campaigning organisation. Each year members vote on the issues to be adopted in the currentContinueContinue reading “Textiles, Plastics and the Ocean”